I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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